General election: Were leaked NHS trade documents posted online by Russian trolls?

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn dismissed the suggestions as a conspiracy theory, writes Anthony Cuthbertson

Jeremy Corbyn poses with members of NHS staff as he presents documents related to post-Brexit UK-US Trade talks (Getty)

Fears of foreign interference in a critical election have once again been raised after a report suggested Russians were behind leaked documents appearing to show a Tory plot to sell off the NHS in a post-Brexit US trade deal.

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn unveiled the 451-page leak at a press conference last week, but they were first published pseudonymously online over a month ago across various social media platforms. A Reddit user, named Gregoriator, posted them to a politics forum but they went almost entirely unnoticed.

A Twitter user of the same name then shared the cache of documents with various journalists and members of the Labour Party, however they once again received little attention.